Dispenser



Nov. 25, 1958 P. F. LA VINE 2,861,728

DISPENSER Filed March 22, 1957 2 sheets-sneu 1 ,2 Fig. 1

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PAU/ l E LA VINE INVENTOR Y euml @am ATTORNEY Nov. 25, 1958 P. F. LAVINE 2,861,728

DISPENSER Filed March 22, 1957 n 2 sheets-sheet 2 PAUL LA V/NE INVENTORBY MU ATTORNEY United States Patent DISPENSER Paul F. La Vine, St. Paul,Minn.

Application March 22, 1957, Serial No. 647,906

4 Claims. (Cl. 224-16) This invention relates to an improved dispenserfor shell shaped objects.V More particularly the improvement relates toa plastic elongated ring having different exterior diameters formounting the ring in a holder and dierent interior diameters for holdingthe shells and frictionally sliding and pivotally rocking the shells todisengage them from the dispenser.

Metal frame rings have heretofore been utilized to dispense shot-gunshells from tubular styled shell vests. The metal rings are easily bentunder pressure and rendered useless even though not worn out. This is atroublesome feature and requires careful care of the vest to avoid anyaccidental external pressure which would bend the rings. Further, therings are comparatively expensive to make up and their cost ofreplacement is relatively high. Thus it will be recognized that there issome need for a relatively less expensive shell dispenser which is notsubject to disguration and destruction upon bending under relativeexternal forces and the internal forces of shell extraction.

Accordingly, it is an object of this invention or improvernent t-oprovide plastic relatively flexible shell dispensers.

Another object of this invention or improvement in shell dispensers isto provide a exible plastic insert for shell vests through which the endof a shell projects for a release therefrom lby rocking and pulling onthe projecting end of the shell.

It is a further object of this invention or improvement in shelldispensers to provide for a flexible plastic elongated tube havingditferent internal surface diameters, with the internal surfaceproviding a wear resistant angularly sloping friction area and arelatively enlarged end area which permits rocking or tipping of anelongated lshell to remove the same from its support and over thefrictional angularly sloping area.

Further objects and advantages willrbe apparent from the followingdescription of the accompanying drawings.

Figure 1 is a plan view of a dispenser embodied in this disclosure withthe outline of the internal surfaces shown in dotted outline.

Figure 2 is a top plan view of the structure shown in Figure l.

Figure 3 illustrates a modified specific shell dispenser for 12 gaugeshot gun shells.

Figure 4 shows a partial vest portion with a series of shell retainingtubes with one tube section broken away to illustrate the position andoperation of a shell dispenser shown in cross section.

The plastic dispenser tube is a molded polyethylene resin body A formedwith an enlarged upper ring end and an integral elongated tube portion11 of lesser external diameter than the external diameter of the ringend 10. The plastic resin forming the tube body A is relatively hard butflexible material which will withstand pressures `of heavy objects byflexing and then spring back into shape without breaking. A moldedpolyethylene provides a waxy relatively hard but exible surface which2,861,728 Patented Nov. 25, 1958 ice permits pulling pressure to drawobjects retained by the tube to be pulled therefrom, in the manner asherein after described.

The hollow internal portion of the tube is shaped or molded of differentdiameters including a rst inwardly sloping inlet end 12. The inlet end12 provides a funnel like guide surface or mouth extending about theupper edge of ring 10 and merges or turns down into the inner surface ofring 10 and tube portion 11 forming a second more sharply slopingsurface 13. The surface 13, extending downwardly through an intermediatesection of the length fof tube portion 11, provides a graduallyincreasing integral body thickness which gradually decreases theinternal diameter of the tube 11 throughout its intermediate sectionextending downwardly from the ring 10 to somewhat over half the lengthof the tube 10, or to the end of the thickened section of the tube 11 at14.

The lower internal end section 15 of the ltube 11 is hollowed out to alarger diameter than the internal decreasing diameter formed by therelativelythickened section of tube 11, produced by the sloping surface13. This end section 15 is a suflicient diameter size to permit freeends of yobjects held within the tube by the slope of surface 13 to yberocked or pivoted back and forth and around to work past the thickenedintermediate portion of tube 11 at the point of its most reducedinternal diameter.

In order to work or pull a rounded flanged object past the smalldiameter end of slope 13, the walls of the tube 11 are provided with aseries of elongated apertures 18, 19 and 20 extending from the topangularly inwardly sloping surface 13 down through the thickened portionof the ring body 11 into the bottom portion of tube A substantiallycentrally` of the enlarged diameter surface 15. The apertures 18, 19 and20 permit the relative section of the thickened body portion 11 of tubeA to flex slightly outwardly when pulling the somewhat enlarged andextending rounded rim edge of a shotgun shell, lip stickholder and likebody through the dispenser tube A.

The modified dispenser structure B of Figure 3 is shown as measured forthe relative exact diameter of holding and dispensing a 12-gauge shotgun shell by about a S-pound pull force when applied to the end thereofas will be explained with respect -to Figure 4. In this arrangement theexternal diameter of mounting ring 24, which is .250 inch deep, measures1.217 inches in diameter and the internal diameter at the inner top orcorner edge 25 measures .937 inch with the inward slope cut at an angleof 30. This measurement permits the shell body 28 and its rim 29 tofreely slide into the body of the dispenser B. The upper inner surface30,

from the edge 25 sloped inwardly at an angle of 4 degrees 121/2 minutesfor a distance extending a little over half the length of the dispensertube B or .938 inch down to the point 31. At point 31 the internaldiameter measures .808 inch and this provides a gradual differential inbody thickness between the top edge 25 and point 31 which catches theshell rim 29 about midway therebetween. The thickness of this bodyportion formed by slope 30 determines the amount of pull force necessaryto extract the shell. In this case the pull force is about 5 pounds. Bycutting the slope d-own to about 3 degrees a somewhat thinner bodyportion is provided lessening the pull to about 3 pounds for skeet andtrap shooters who prefer the lighter pull force required to extract theshell from the dispenser.

In order to tip or rock the shell body 28, the lower internal end of thedispenser tube B for .502 inch is provided with an inner peripherialsurface 32 affording an inner diameter of .937 inch from the point 31down to the bottom or outlet edge 33 of the plastic dispenser tube B.The surface 30 and thickened body portion of dispenser B, at 31, orsubstantially midway of lower end of the tube surface 32, has -aninternal diameter Iof .937 inch. The apertures, as` represented by 34,are spaced about the tube body in a manner similar to the apertures 18,19 and 20.

Illustrative of an elongated hollow holding tube for dispensing tubularobjects provided with an extended rim, there is shown in Figure 4 asegment of a shell vest C. The vest C is generally a cloth or canvaslike body 35 provided with a series of shell retaining tubes 36, 37 and38. Tube 38 being shown in broken section to illustrate a number ofshell bodies 28 stacked in the tube. The base of each of the tubes aregathered, as by threads 39 and 40, to provide narrow openings throughwhich only the lower ends of dispenser B will slide, with the enlarged,external diameter 10 of the ring 24 stopped or locked in the ends of thetubes 36, 37 and 38 by the threading as at 39 and 40. With thisstructure the plastic dispensers B permit the shell bodies 28 with theirrims 29 to slide about half way through the dispenser so that the lowerend of the shell body 28 can be grasped by the ngers and moved from sideto side or rocked with a downward pulling pressure to force the rim 29to slide over the ilexing inner surface 30 of the dispenser tube B. Asone shell is extracted another drops down with its end exposed in asimilar manner ready for pulling from the dispenser tube B. While inthis relatively specic illustration, I have more or less specificallydescribed a dispenser for a 1`2gauge shot gun shell it will beunderstood that similar larger and smaller dispensers A and B can beprovided for larger and smaller shells or shell shaped bodies. Thus itwill be understood that such changes can be made as will providestructures which fall within the scope of my claims.

I claim:

1. A shell dispenser insert for a metal rimmed shot gun shell, saidinsert consisting of an integral molded plastic body having an upperopen end portion, an intermediate open portion and a lower open endportion, said body being formed as an elongated flexible plastic tubebody having an integral enlarged external but narrow ring about saidupper end portion adapted to secure the said exible body to the end ofan elongated holding tube for a plurality of said shells and the balanceof the length of said elongated ilexible tube body forming saidintermediate portion and said lower end portion being of a uniformlylesser external diameter than the external diameter of said ring; theinterior of said insert having at its upper open end a rst inwardly wallsloping surface providing a shell guide, a second sloping wall surfaceon said intermediate body portion providing a substantially continuousWall of gradually increasing thickness against which a shell rim isadapted to normally rest in said insert, the said second sloping beingformed as an integral gradually thickened body :.portion of said insertwhich increases in cross-sectional thickness towards the lower open endof said insert and provides a gradually decreasing internal diameterbody size extending throughout said intermediate open portion of saidinsert, and the balance of the tube body having `an internal diameter atthe said lower open end of a larger dimension than the internal diameterof said intermediate thickened wall portion of said insert, whereby whena shot gun shell is placed in said insert the lower end of the shellextends from the said lower open end portion of said insert in a mannerto be grasped and when vpulled upon, the metal rim of said shell exesthe circumferential diameter throughout the said intermediate thickenedwall portion of said insert to allow the shell to be pulled therefrom.

2. The structure of claim 1 wherein the plastic body is provided with aseries of elongated apertures extending from the said rst inwardlysloping surface down into the said thickened body portion.

3. An improved shell dispenser insert for temporarily holdingshellshaped objects having an enlargement thereon to be pulled therefrom,said insert consisting of a flexible plastic elongated tubular bodyhaving an upper end portion and a lower end portion of unitary moldedflexible walls of different external and internal diameters, said upperend portion being formed with an enlarged external ring means forretaining said dispenser in a holding tube and providing an open mouthextending about the upper edge of said ring, said lower end portionformed of a ilexible wall of a lesser external diameter than said ringand formed with an inwardly sloping surface extending downwardly throughan intermediate section of the length of the said elongated tubular bodyto provide a gradually increasing integral body thickness whichgradually decreases the internal diameter of the tube throughout itssaid intermediate section, a series of elongated apertures in spacedrelation in said-intermediate section, dividing said wall into integralspaced wall portions and an open lower endin said tube, whereby a shellshaped body is temporarily supported by said dispenser with the lowerend thereof depending from said open lower end of said tubular body andis withdrawn therefrom by forcibly flexing the said thickenedintermediate wall portions between said elongated apertures.

4, The structure of claim 3 wherein the plastic is polyethyleneReferences Cited in the tile of this patent UNITED STATES FATENTS724,190 Krough et al Mar. 3l, 1903 995,086 Parret June 13, 19112,791,148 Maisch May 7, 1957

